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Thierry Gueorgiou from France just completed a one week
visit to Ontario for training, racing and some tourism
too. Read about his visit
here. |
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The 2009 AGM minutes have been
posted. |
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An update re the Orienteering Canada shirt order....
(Oct 2) The shirts were sent out in early October. |
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Get the
latest news on the new orienteering coaching
program. |
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The course
and category guidelines for championship events has been
updated. |
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The
COF announces a new partnership with
Breathe Magazine. Great subscription promotion for
the Canadian Orienteering community
[read
more...] |
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Support the Canadian
Amateur Sport Network
[read
more...] |
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The latest
rankings of Canada's elite orienteers are now
posted. |
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The latest COF
newsletter is now available
here. |
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The latest
rankings of Canada's elite orienteers are now
posted.
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The
World Orienteering Championships have
finished up. Check out the profiles of the national team
here and get the latest news on the
team's blog at:
http://teamcanadaorienteering.blogspot.com
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The
Junior World Orienteering Championships in
Italy have finished up. The results from all
the Canadians are
here.
The results highlights of the week are Emily
Kemp's 24th place finish in the middle 27th
place in the long.
Thanks to Angela, Emily, Lee, Graham,
Graeme, Colin, Damian and Eric for
representing Canada and a big thanks to
Randy Kemp for his work as the team leader.
[read
more...] |
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The 2009 senior national team has been announced:
Louise Oram and Carol Ross
Will Critchley, Patrick Goeres, Jon Torrance, Nick Duca,
Mike Smith and Wil Smith [read
more...] |
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The
Junior World Orienteering Championships in
Italy have finished up. The results from all
the Canadians are
here.
The results highlights of the week are Emily
Kemp's 24th place finish in the middle 27th
place in the long.
Thanks to Angela, Emily, Lee, Graham,
Graeme, Colin, Damian and Eric for
representing Canada and a big thanks to
Randy Kemp for his work as the team leader.
[read
more...] |
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Congratulations Marie-Catherine Bruno for her results at
the
World Ski Orienteering
Championships in Japan. |
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The
Canadian 2009 Junior World Orienteering Championships
Team has been
announced.
Congratulations! |
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Preliminary info about the
2010 North American Championships in BC now
available. |
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Orienteering
Ontario has launched their new
website. |
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Check out the
Yukon Orienteering Association's
new website. |
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Orienteering Coach/Junior
Programme Co-ordinator job
This spring Golden Horseshoe Orienteering (GHO) is
undertaking an approximately two month pilot project to
expanding its school and training program and is
currently looking for an individual who, together with
GHO officials, will lead and co-ordinate this project.
The job will involve visiting schools, planning and
organizing orienteering exercises, planning and
organizing permanent courses, and assisting at weekly
GHO training and GHO weekend events.
We will look favourably at
applications from individuals with mapping experience.
We would like the successful candidate to start in
April, but exact start dates can be discussed. The job
term is approximately two months. Salary offered is
$15/hour, and we expect successful candidate to work
40h/week. If you are interested or have any questions,
please contact the President of GHO, Hans Fransson at
prezATdontgetlostDOTca
Golden Horseshoe Orienteering is as a
not-for-profit incorporated volunteer organization that
for over the last 40 years has been greatly involved in
many communities of the Golden Horseshoe each year by
assisting in trail map development and school programs.
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Brent Langbakk
(Whitehorse) has been elected as the Athlete
Representative for a 3 year term and is now an
ex-officio member of the COF Board of Directors.
Congratulations Brent!
[read
more...] |
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Magnus Johansson of
Vancouver has been appointed as the 2009 national team
coach. See the
national team page for all the details. |
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The Alberta Orienteering Association is
currently looking for Canadian mappers who
have extensive experience producing top
quality orienteering maps (OCAD) to the
latest ISOM and/or ISSOM standards to work
on different projects in Alberta during the
summer of 2009. The different areas where
the AOA wants to make are in Calgary and the
Alberta Rockies. The mappers will be
coordinated by the Alberta Orienteering
Association. If you are an interested mapper,
please contact Pascale Levesque at
pascale@orienteeringalberta.ca. |
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Canadian
results from the World Orienteering Championships in the
Czech Republic
Sprint qualification
(athletes competed in 1 of
3 heats, top 15 advance to final): Louise Oram 21st,
Victoria Smith 23rd, Heather Smith 27th, Patrick Goeres
8th, Jon Torrance 27th, Brent Langbakk 30th
Sprint final: Patrick Goeres 44th
Middle qualification
(athletes competed in 1 of 3 heats, top 15 advance to
final): Sandy Hott 15th, Louise Oram 17th, Victoria
Smith 25th, Mike Smith 18th, Nick Duca 28th, Wil Smith
32nd
Middle final: Sandy Hott 26th
Long qualification (athletes competed in 1 of
3 heats, top 15 advance to final): Sandy Hott 13th,
Louise Oram 15th, Charlotte MacNaughton 29th, Mike Smith
20th, Nick Duca 32nd, Patrick Goeres DNF
Long final: Sandy Hott 26th, Louise Oram 41st
Relay: Men: Patrick Goeres, Mike Smith, Wil Smith
24th /36 teams Women: Victoria Smith, Heather Smith,
Louise Oram 23rd / 26 teams
Full results are on the WOC
website at
www.woc2008.cz. |
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Canadian results from
JWOC
The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC)
have wrapped up. A big congratulations to Damian,
Robbie, Graham, Lee, Fraser, Colin, Carol and Emily for
representing Canada.
Relay:
Men: Canada 2 (Damian, Colin, Graham) 43rd; Canada 1
(Robbie, Fraser, Lee) 45th. Women: Emily and Carol
teamed up with a Slovenian and finished 31st. Emily was
10th on the 1st leg and Carol was 24th on the 2nd leg.
They were in 18th at the end of the 2nd leg.
Long final:
Emily Kemp 62nd, Carol Ross 88th; Robbie Anderson
127th, Colin Abbott 131st, Lee Hawkings 132nd, Graham
Ereaux 136th, Fraser Ross 143rd, Damian Konotopetz DSQ.
Middle final:
Emily Kemp 33rd in the A final, Carol Ross 16th in
the B final; In the men's C final: Fraser Ross 24th, Lee
Hawkings 25th, Robbie Anderson 31st, Colin Abbott 36th, Damian Konotopetz
47th, Graham Ereaux 49th.
Middle qualification (athletes competed in 1 of 3
heats):
Emily Kemp 10th, Carol Ross 29th; Robbie Anderson
43rd, Fraser Ross 43rd, Damian Konotopetz 43rd, Colin
Abbott 45th, Graham Ereaux 49th, Lee Hawkings 51st.
Sprint final:
Emily Kemp 38th, Carol Ross 104th; Robbie Anderson
124th, Fraser Ross 128th, Graham Ereaux 141st, Lee
Hawkings 148th, Damian Konotopetz, 160th, Colin Abbott
168th.
Full results are at
www.gmok.nu/jwoc2008 |
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Orienteering article
from Yes Mag
Yes Mag is a Canadian children's science magazine. In 2006 they
did a theme issue on cartography and included a two page,
comic-style
story about orienteering. The story won an award from the
Association of Educational Publishers in the US. Check it out
here - it's
fantastic! Orienteering clubs are welcome to use to the pdf.
Please include a link to Yes Mag (www.yesmag.ca)
if you are putting it on your website. |
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Canadian Amateur Sport
Network
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC),
working with a group of partners, applied to the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission (CRTC) on December 3, 2007, for two
television licenses for specialty sports television
networks dedicated to Canadian high performance sport.
The applications are for an English language license and
a French language license: Canadian Amateur Sports
Network (CASN) and Réseau du sport amateur canadien (RSAC).
Details are
here. |
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2008 COF
conference information now available
The 2008 conference will be Aug 20-23 at the Alma
Activity Center. Highlights include the first community
coaching workshop as part of the COF's revamped coaching
program, a talk on route choice by World Champion
Holger Hott, and a presentation by
Siegfried Ritter - the person behind the SPORTident
electronic timing system.
Details are
here. |
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2008 Sass Peepre
National Junior Training Camp information now available
The 2008 camp will be Aug 17-20 in Saint John, New
Brunswick.
Details are
here. |
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New FWOC website
The orienteering club in Calgary has a nicely designed
new website.
Check it out. |
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2008 Eastern Canadian
Championships confirmed
The Toronto Orienteering Club will be hosting the 2008
Eastern Canadian Championships in conjunction with the
Ontario Championships Oct 11-12.
Event website. |
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National
email network - have you joined yet?
We have created an email list to help facilitate
communication between all the orienteering clubs and
association across Canada. To join this list, send an
email to:
orienteeringcanada-subscribe@yahoogroups.com |
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2008 events
As your associations and clubs are confirming their 2008
schedules, please pass on the dates so that we can
update the
web schedule. |
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North American Sprint
Series
Getting geared up for the 2008 Sprint Series? Check out
the great new sprint
series
website. To add events to the
schedule, just e-mail Kris Beecroft (krisbeecroft_at_msn.com)
at least 20 days before the event with
the basic details — when, where, and an e-mail contact
and a web site address for more info. |
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Updating the COF
officials certification programmes
See this
new page for the latest news on this project. Please
provide your input. |
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Orienteering Week in
Canada - feedback please
Thank you at all the clubs that hosted events during
Orienteering Week in Canada from May 2-9, 2007.
There were a
large number of events held across the country. O
clubs - please send your OWIC feedback to the COF so we
can continue to improve on the week and make OWIC '08
bigger and better. |
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Updated rules from the IOF
The IOF's
competition rules (updated for 2007) are
here. (the last page contains a summary of the
changes since the 2004 version). |
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New IOF Code of Ethics
The IOF Council released a
Code of Ethics. The code comprises four principles:
equality, fair play, respect and integrity. It expresses
the IOF’s commitment to the highest standards of conduct
in sport administration and competition. |
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New course and category
guidelines
We have new
course and
category guidelines for championship events. These
were approved at the AGM. Thanks to Ross Burnett and
Brent Langbakk for their work in putting these together.
We will be looking at how to best apply these guidelines
for smaller events too. To those of you organizing A
meets and provincial championship in 2007, please give
us your feedback. |
